[.ca] The Brothers Karamazov (ISBN 0486437914)

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Great Book Bad Translation, Jul 20 2007 I have read this translation of BK as well as one by David Magarshack, and a new one by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhinsky. The recent translation by Pevear and Volokhinsky is much much better than this one by Constance Garnett (which is better than Magarshack's) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnsky are ideal translators for Dostoevsky (he has a PhD in Russian Literature from London and is a native English speaker, she studied literature in Russia and is a native Russian speaker), they live together in France and decided to retranslate this work after she read an English translation and, knowing the Russian original, was disgusted by the translation. Their translation won a Pen/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. Brothers Karamazov is a good book by any translation, but is elevated to one of the peaks of modern fiction by Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation, pass this edition up and by their translation...it's worth the extra pennies.